tracking third-party sources

[Pierre Asselin]

I'm looking for a mercurial equivalent to "cvs import".
Based in part on the wiki I came up with this.

Create the repository normally ...
    hg init foo-incoming

... and perform all code drops as follows:
    tar xjvf foo-x.y.tar.bz2
    cd foo-x.y
    ln -s ../foo-incoming/.hg .      # clever !
    hg addremove --similarity 70
    hg commit -m foo-x.y

Questions:
    1)  Am I being *too* clever ?
    2)  Is the behavior worth supporting officially, e.g.
	    hg addremove -s 70 -R ../foo-incoming
	(doesn't work as of hg 1.0.2 but the symlink does.)


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